Dell Vrtx w/PowerEdge M520 blade servers
My company just recently purchased this set up in order to virtualize our servers with VMware esxi.I have set up the environment with shared storage from the vrtx etc. and the VMware environment is up...
View ArticleFabric mismatch on M620 w/ 10G on B
My M1000 system has two MXL (A1/B1) and 2 M I/O Aggregator (A2/B2). Nothing is in C1/C2.My CMC reports A1/A2/B1/B2 are '10 GbE KR' which I believe is correct.I have just installed some 10G cards 06ycp8...
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Install of H700 controller in dell R610
I asked this question on serverfault.com but so far haven't got a definitive answer.We have just brought a refurbished dell R610 2 X 6 Core X5650, 96G Ram, SAS 6ir Raid Controller, 2 X Fujitsu...
View ArticleInstalling W8R2 in a Dell 2950
Hello,I get an error saying " device driver error"...once I pass the install To fix this I installed PE2950_BIOS_WIN_2.7.0,FRMW_WIN_R124186,DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A07_R211422 before installing the W8R2 CD...
View ArticleT630 GPU configuration
Hey everyone,I'm having some trouble getting my third party GPUs working on a T630. I have no problem with the system otherwise. I intend to use them as GPGPU cards, but can't even get them to show...
View ArticleOME 2.0 can't load DRM 2.0 catalog
Trying to build a custom repository. Have created new repository with OME inventory. Set source to local folder on server running both OME & DRM. In OME change catalog source to same local folder....
View ArticleR200 with BCM95721 network wont link up at 1000Mbps
Hi,We have a PowerEdge R200 server with the Broadcom BCM95721 network controller. It's stuck at 100Mbps link to a 1Gig switch. We have other, older, PE servers connected to the same switch and they...
View ArticleKeep seeing the error cant find bootable device
Hi,I am trying to boot my Dell R310 server with CD/DVD drive. However it does not boot and gives an error saying cant find bootable device. I went inside the BIOS settings and make sure CD/DVD is...
View ArticleiDRAC7 Virtual Console Reads "No Signal"
I started off with a PE T420 and the Basic iDRAC7 License on my server. Recently I added a dedicated NIC along with an Enterprise License. I started off by importing the Enterprise License on to my...
View ArticleNew: E1000 Failsafe voltage error. Contact support.
Hi in running diagnostics on a purchasing a refurbished R610 server, I plugged in a SAS 6ir which worked fine in the server before it, I plugged in the SAS drives and booted. I selected the System...
View ArticleUpgrade PowerEdge T320 cabled drives to hot-swap
Hi,I'm new to this forum, and have searched for this subject but couldn't find anything. I hope this is not a duplicate.Well, I just bought a PowerEdge T320 with cabled drives, and was wondering if it...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1900 Hangs on Boot
I have a pe1900 that has been working just fine. I shut it down before a storm in anticipation of a power failure, which did not occur (it is connected to a ups).Upon restarting, the system will show...
View ArticleSCOM Dell Server MP 5.2, OMSA 7.4.0.2, Periodic False "DSM Data Manager...
I'm using System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 and the Dell PowerEdge MP 5.2. I'm using 5.2 because I have 2970 machines I need to discover and the later versions do not support that. OMSA is...
View ArticleNew: E1000 Failsafe voltage error. Contact support.
Hi in running diagnostics on a purchasing a refurbished R610 server, I plugged in a SAS 6ir which worked fine in the server before it, I plugged in the SAS drives and booted. I selected the System...
View ArticleiDRAC7 racadm command to delete indexed user
iDRAC7 racadm command to delete indexed user?Background: R720 utilizing the iDRAC7, 1.57.57 firmwareBeen trying to find a way to delete a user account from the DRAC interface. You can add a new user...
View ArticleHow to manage VRTX
Hi allI have Dell VRTX Server, I want to Log in to it's CMC controller (on HP is ILO), how to do this and which software Ihave to download in order to be able to Manage the server ?
View ArticleLinkUp/LinkDown alert - identifying NICs
Hi, how do I identify which NIC OME is referring to when it sends us a "LinkDown" error alert? I've just received "LinkDown Port or number: 25" but my server appears to be up and running just fine. I...
View ArticleiDRAC7 Virtual Console Reads "No Signal"
I started off with a PE T420 and the Basic iDRAC7 License on my server. Recently I added a dedicated NIC along with an Enterprise License. I started off by importing the Enterprise License on to my...
View ArticleiDRAC Service Module install on MS Cluster
iDRAC Service ModuleVersion 2.0.0install fails with error:The root\mscluster namespace is marked with the RequiresEncryption flag. Access to this namespace might be denied if the script or application...
View ArticlePoweredge 840 PERC5i controller Raid 5 - Add 500gb HDD & Replace three...
Windows server 2003 running on a raid 5 with three hdd's 160gb each, running out of space so I added a 500gb hdd, no problems!! After adding the 500gb hdd it added some space to the VD, it was...
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